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Silver tarnishes by bonding with airborne sulfur

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Buying expensive silverware is just inviting a lifetime of tedious polishing. Silver actively reacts with trace amounts of sulfur floating around in the ambient air, creating that dull, dark layer of tarnish. Your fancy cutlery is essentially self-vandalizing simply because it refuses to ignore the tiny impurities drifting harmlessly through the dining room.

Silver tarnishes by bonding with airborne sulfur
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